The Road

In the dark

I drive over timeless mountains.

The sky exposes herself to me

In falling starlight and dreamy wisps

Of moonlight.

The road unfolds before me,

Telling a story I discover in each moment.

I know the path well.

I have driven here before,

Finding your love again and again throughout time.

In pauses between conversations with strangers I call friends;

In the quiet of night when only the insects speak to me,

My mind wanders back to you.

In these day dreams,

The timeless mountains become the curl of your hair

Over my naked arm while you sleep.

The night sky and the dreamy wisps of moonlight

Become the remembered depth of your eyes

With the pale reflection of me in their earthy circumference.

In these moments

The stars tell stories of constellations

We have not yet imagined.

The story of us is born again ceaselessly from the same source,

And the road is the pathway between our hearts.

© Fergus Clare, 2014

Narrow road leading to Paranal Observatory
Atacama Desert, Chile
Photo by Julien Girard, an astronomer for ESA